He is an independent analyst and an Associate Research Fellow with the Russia/NIS Center at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). He was previously Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. He has written extensively on Russian foreign and security policy, with a particular focus on Sino-Russian relations. He is the author of Russia and the New World Disorder, which was short-listed for the 2016 Pushkin House Prize and described by The Economist as the ‘best attempt yet to explain Russia’s unhappy relationship with the rest of the world’. His latest book, A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World, was published in 2017. He has a MA from Oxford and a PhD from Melbourne University.